CO·11 Rondineto

Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd

Material:	pottery
Size:	length 7.3 cm, width 3 cm (of fragment)

Condition:	fragmentary

Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5^th–early 4^th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context

Site:	Rondineto (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 10.80" N, 9° 3' 36.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 16075

Inscription:	CO·11 (]tioiso ??[)

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 292 Solinas 1995: 83 Morandi 2004: 158

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 627

Images

Potsherd CO·11 Rondineto with inscription CO·11 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·11 Rondineto with inscription CO·11 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.16 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.3 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.15 (photo), Morandi 1999: 202, tav. XV.3 (photo = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.158).

Fragment of the round rim of a ceramic vessel of red clay (Garovaglio 1877: 35, no. 16, an olla according to Gambari & Colonna 1988: 162, no. 8), found at Rondineto in unspecified circumstances (Barelli 1877: 4; in the "sepolcreto" according to Poggi 1879: 311, but cf. CO·5 Rondineto and Gambari & Colonna 1988: 162, no. 8). Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214), cf. Colonna and Morandi.

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.
Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.